ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100925

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1581 2010/08/14 23:32:54 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1595 2010/09/25 22:25:20 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,44 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20100925
+       + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
+         xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
+         special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
+       > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+       + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
+         README.MinGW).
+       + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+
+20100918
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+       + add manpage for sp-funcs.
+       + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+
+20100911
+       + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
+         and form-libraries.
+       + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+       + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
+         (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+       + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
+         platforms.
+
+20100904
+       + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
+         programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20100828
+       + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
+       + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
+         message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
+         description (prompted by Debian #593920).
+       + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
+         descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
+       + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
+         Sittler).
+
 20100814
        + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
          the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window